“@Pfizer and the others would only announce a Vaccine after the Election, because they didn’t have the courage to do it before. Likewise, the @US_FDA should have announced it earlier, not for political purposes”
What FactCheck.org found
Pfizer has said the timing of its announcement was not politically motivated and was dictated only by science. The FDA hasn’t commented on the vaccine.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 9 November 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 November 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “No Evidence”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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